Cleaning out the freezers today as it’s bin night. There is… a lot. Ol’ girl had a habbit (when she/we did the shopping down here) of doubling down on shit that we already had. Also brings duplicates of stuff from melbs down and heaps end up in there
Now she’s not shopping so it’s time for the purge. Some of that shit would be 5+ yrs old. Difficult to know what’s good / bad for a lot of it. Seems like a waste but relatively not too bad considering how long it’s been.
Does anyone here keep an inventory of stuff in there? Tempted to do a spready (or 2) and slap it on doors to keep it tight. But it might be one of things where it could be an idea but will never work properly.
I have a small freezer that needs to be defrosted every 6 months so what I do is live off that until it’s empty and then restock it. I know that nothing has been in there longer than 6 months.
With the fridge - freezer however I label stuff with a date on them if I’ve repacked meat into freezer bags.
Cleaning out the freezers today as it’s bin night. There is… a lot. Ol’ girl had a habbit (when she/we did the shopping down here) of doubling down on shit that we already had. Also brings duplicates of stuff from melbs down and heaps end up in there
Now she’s not shopping so it’s time for the purge. Some of that shit would be 5+ yrs old. Difficult to know what’s good / bad for a lot of it. Seems like a waste but relatively not too bad considering how long it’s been.
Does anyone here keep an inventory of stuff in there? Tempted to do a spready (or 2) and slap it on doors to keep it tight. But it might be one of things where it could be an idea but will never work properly.
Yup. A5 magnetic clipboard stuck to the front holding a bunch of freezer inventory pages. .
We slash the appropriate number of boxes when we load 'er up, then X out when we’ve eaten it.
^(AMA about organisation, I’ve been working around the hubs adhd for years :P) ^
No inventory but I clean out the freezer every six months by just not buying anything and using everything.
I have a small freezer that needs to be defrosted every 6 months so what I do is live off that until it’s empty and then restock it. I know that nothing has been in there longer than 6 months.
With the fridge - freezer however I label stuff with a date on them if I’ve repacked meat into freezer bags.
I think this is where it’s gone a bit wrong heh. 6 months seems like a good thing to aim for. Hrmm.
You don’t need an inventory. You just need to make sure to label stuff with a texta and include the year.
same
I don’t label tho, I put food in containers and then when I run out of containers I have to use what’s in there …lol
I don’t repackage anything